CHAPTER IV. 



TRANSPORTATION OF FISH. 



It sometimes so happens that it is desirable to 

 transport live fish from one location to another. 

 The transportation of live fish has always been 

 a laborious business to me, and hazardous to the 

 fish, until I hit upon the plan of conveying them 

 in water, made very cold by the addition of ice. 

 I carried four hundred and twenty trout a dis- 

 tance of twenty-eight miles without changing the 

 water once, in a barrel only three-fourths full of 

 water; the water was kept as cold as it possibly 

 could be by frequent additions of ice. I lost only 

 four or five of the fish, and these were killed* by 

 being jammed between the pieces of ice. They 

 were in the barrel fully eighteen hours without 

 the water having been once changed. 



I feel very confident that they would not have 

 lived a single hour in the water, had it not been 

 for the extreme cold caused by the frequent addi- 

 tions of ice. The fish, however, were all small 

 one-third of them, perhapsj were two years old; 

 the remainder were yearlings and young fry of six 



months. 



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